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EPISTEMICS AND ECONOMICS

G. L. S. Shackle

 

Subtitle: A Critique of Economic Doctrines, Transaction Publishers, London, 2009, 482 pgs., index, paperback

 
 

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Introduction and Preface

 
 

Book I Economic Theory and the Scheme of Things Entire

 
 

Chapter 1 - Economic Theory and the Formal Imagination

 
 

Chapter 2 - Time, novelty, geometry

 
 

Chapter 3 - Self-susbisanet and non-self-subsistent sciences

 
 

Chapter 4 - Valuation, variety and scalar quantity

 
 

Chapter 5 - Formal codes and their efficiency

 
 

Chapter 6 - Orientations

 
 

Chapter 7 - Reason versus knowledge

 
 

Book II The Rise of the Rational Ideal

 
 

Chapter 8 - The construct of reason

 
 

Chapter 9 - Subjective marginalism

 
 

Chapter 10 - The concept of value

 
 

Chapter 11 - Quantity versus form

 
 

Chapter 12 - The rational ideal as the core of economic theory

 
 

Chapter 13 - Cost and the meaning of choice

 
 

Chapter 14 - Perfect competition and conceptual illusionism

 
 

Chapter 15 - The vale-construct in the round

 
 

Book III The Dissolution of the Rational Ideal

 
 

Chapter 16 - Expectation: the dissolution of determinancy

 
 

Chapter 17 - Chapter 2 of the General Theory: two entrances for involuntary unemployment

 
 

Chapter 18 - Kaleidic investment-values

 
 

Chapter 19 -Lender's uncertainity and the nature of interest-raes

 
 

Chapter 20 - Liquidity: its nature

 
 

Chapter 21 - Prices as convention

 
 

Chapter 22 - The dissolution of rational determinacy

 
 

Book IV Statics: The Rejection of Time

 
 

Chapter 23 - The calculus and the subjective ideal

 
 

Chapter 24 - Simultaneous equations and the market ideal

 
 

Chapter 25 - Partial equilibrium

 
 

Chapter 26 -The rejection of time

 
 

Book V Diachronism: The Artefact of Time

 
 

Chapter 27 - Diachronism: the assimilation of time and space

 
 

Chapter 28 - Marshall's accommodation of time

 
 

Chapter 29 - Capital, or the time-net of production

 
 

Chapter 30 - Business cycle engines

 
 

Chapter 31- History, theory and world-picture

 
 

Chapter 32 - The sovereignity of theory

 
 

Book VI - Epistemics Versus Axiomatics

 
 

Chapter 33 - The science of imprecision

 
 

Chapter 34 - Languages for expecttion

 
 

Chapter 35 - Profit

 
 

Chapter 36 - Game theory's exclusion of tactical surprise

 
 

Chapter 37 - Kaleidic economics

 
 

Chapter 38 - Econoimic theory unbound

 

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